witch-bird-arts-deactivated2018 asked:

I came up with a random and slightly terrible idea for a prompt. Amy starts dating Shadow to make sonic jealous, and at first Shadow goes along with the idea out of pure spite, but something triggers a "Maria Moment" and he ends up becoming overly protective/attached of her. What do you think? Terrible right? XD

cutegirlmayra answered:

Please don't judge, I made this one x "What's wrong with Amy?" 'Fight for me!'

Oh, so terrible~ just enough so… that it might actually work! :D (that's a compliment, lol)

Prompt:

With Amy watching Comedy Chimp interview Sonic for a 'Comedy Ship' special, Sonic is asked if Amy's ever dated anyone, "After all, she's a good looking girl, am I right? Charity-worker, perfect house-keeper, even got a top 80 for 'can you wield a hammer and still look cute and totally not intimidating?'! What are your comments, Sonic?"

"Well, Chimp. Honestly? There's not a lot of guys out there looking for someone like Amy. But hey! I guess it's a little intimidating… that's why she didn't make the tippy-top of that chart, you know what I'm saying?" Sonic winks and relaxes with his hands behind his head, making the crowd laugh.

Amy squirms in her seat with anger, "I lost to an Otter and an Koala bear! That's tough competition!" she threw the remote and started smashing around her house.

When she wore off, she saw something pass her window and quickly looked out it, getting an idea when she saw Shadow talking about something on his communicator.

"Remember, all you have to do is plant one last bomb in any location Sonic may pass through!" Eggman hollered, as Shadow seemed pretty serious about that command.

"Like I said, Doctor. I work on my own terms. Don't worry about where I place it, only that you have it go off when the time comes." he turned off the communicator and kept walking when Amy jumped up and in front of his way, smiling from cheek to cheek.

She giggled oddly, as if being shy, and having her hands behind her back, nervously hunched down a bit.

"…Out of my way,… strange… pink.. woman." he gestured his arm out, trying to get her to move but looking confused on how to address her.

"Amy. And I was just wondering if you're alone right now..?" She peeked over his shoulders and then chuckled nervously again as she pushed her fingers in on each other. "haha..ha.."

He rose an eyebrow, 'Did she discover my true plans with Eggman? Is my cover blown?" he held a hand over his communicator and stepped back, "I don't have times to deal with Sonic's pathetic friends…" he was about to race off when he felt something grab at his arm and pull him back.

"W-what?" he looked back and saw her clinging to him. "One walk around the town, then you can do whatever you want!"

"One walk?" He was confused, but the directness and weird surprise of it left him unable to fight back as she pulled him into town.

"Promise it won't be long! It never is to start up rumors…" she grinned mischievously, before giggling randomly as people walked by, and placing her head on Shadow's shoulder.

He would flinch away before Eggman called again…

"Uhh… hmph." he pushed Amy away, secretly taking the call on his wrist communicator.

"Shadow! Why are you-? … are you seriously on a date with Amy?" Eggman looked annoyed.

"What? I'm trying to escape her-emm!" he was cut off by Amy grabbing his face, turning him to her and pointing to her friends.

"They're here! Okay, act natural!" She put her arm around his waist and his arm over her shoulder, and giggled once again in her silly, nervous way. "This'll teach him to tell me I'm not wanted!"

"What?! Unhand me! Let me go, you crazy-!"

"Woah, is that..? Shadow?!" Sonic stepped back.

"He's captured Amy!" Tails cries out, pointing.

"Against her will!" Sticks got on all fours, growling and biting at the air.

"With no understanding of how to properly pull off that move!" Knuckles punched the air, and then posed with the rest of them, ready to fight.

Amy pretended to laugh at something Shadow said, snorting slightly and confusing him more, before walking on her merry way with him being dragged along as he stumbled in his steps.

"Uhhh…" the gang watched in the same amount of confusion as Shadow had portrayed.

"…Was she… happy?"

"Laughing means happiness." Sticks replied to Tails's question, getting up and stroking her chin. "Hmm.. Looks kinda like she's moved on."

"Aww.. does this mean we can't trash Amy's place anymore?" Knuckles leaned down, arms draping over and dangling in front of him, looking like a sad puppy.

"M-moved on!?" Sonic was startled, to say the least, and shook his head and hands, "No, no, no- NO. She's clearly been… been… brain-washed! Yeah, that's it!"

He watched as she sat down at Meh Burger with Shadow, trying to feed him as he struggled to get away from her.

"…She… she's just messing around is all." Sonic folded his arms, looking away, almost offended.

The gang looked at each other before he threw his arms up, "Stop looking! It's weird! She's clearly only going out with my mortal enemy to make me jealous!"

He pouted and peeked out to the two again, as Tails sighed.

"Well, maybe she'll convert him to our side?"

"WHAT?!"

"Love is a powerful thing. Who knows? They may make some lovely hedgehog babies together." Sticks shrugged, walking off with Tails.

"You guys! We can't just let this happen!" Sonic frantically turned to them, gesturing to the two, "She's clearly being used! He's using her! Going to break her heart to try and get to me- I-I-I mean us! The team! He'll be our Yoko!" he gripped his head, clearly desperate for them to help stop this mess.

Knuckles yawned, "But that would mean ruining their date, right? That's a low thing to do, Sonic. Amy's our friends. If she wants to go off and hang with other dudes at Meh Burger than we have to respect her decision." He then twitched and held his chest. "Ouch! Was that what I think it was? Ah! Tails! I need ducktape! Fast!" He then booked it to Tails, who also looked down a moment, turning around.

"Hey, that's right. If Amy goes off with Shadow.. doesn't that mean we won't see her anymore?"

As the gang got wild up, Shadow planted the bomb in Meh Burger, under the table as he noticed them coming to approach the two.

"Mind telling me why you insist on making a fool of yourself?"

She giggled nervously again before sobbing and slamming her head to the table. The impact made him worry about the bomb as he sneakily glanced down to check on it.

It wasn't activated… he let a quiet sound of relief calmly pass his lips.

He then glared back at Amy. "You're wasting my patience. What's going on-!"

She plugged his mouth, leaning back up.

He swiped it off, "And stop doing that!"

"I need you to act like you like me!"

"What?!"

They were holding hands now, not on purpose, as Sonic and the gang flinched from a distance.

"They're already holding hands!" Sticks blurted out.

"They're moving too fast! This is getting serious!" Tails gripped his head, panic now setting in as they had recently decided to confront Amy about this. "Even me and Zooey haven't reached that stage! I-I'd be too embarrassed!"

"He must be stopped!" Sonic hollered out, and the team moved faster. "Wait!" Sonic stopped them, "Stealth… be cool guys… be cool…" They straightened up, being casual and speed walking over to them now.

"You're insufferable! Why would I fancy you?" "You could if you tried! Honest! I'd be a cute girlfriend!" Shadow was pushing her away from him, but Amy was moving more towards him.

The team sped up again, their heads lowering down and Tails spinning his tails as it looked a little… different from their point of view…

More couply.

"Why are you so insistent!? Tell me the truth!" He threw her hands down and she sighed in annoyance, giving up.

"Fine! I wanted to make Sonic jealous!"

"What?" Shadow looked at Sonic's face, coming quickly over to them, dodging people and stopping for the old monkey man to pass, growing impatience and growling at having to wait.

"Heh. If that's your goal.." He pulled her closer and leaned his head back to whisper in her ear. "Quick, giggle. Like before." He needed to get her to lure the team over there way anyway…

She did so since his breath tickled her ear anyway. She covered her face though, hiding the blush as she realized she actually liked that feeling. 'That's not supposed to happen.' she thought to herself.

Sonic moved faster, helping the old monkey across the street before continuing to 'play it cool' towards the two, but growing more and more aggressive in his steps and his expression.

Shadow smiled, "Closer…" He moved his finger to the communicator for Eggman to receive his signal, waiting for the perfect moment…

"You know, Shadow… I really am grateful you're playing along with this." Amy looked away, her hands on her lap. "I mean… It just means…"

She smiled up at him, and his eyes suddenly widened, distracted.

"That you do have a heart, after all!" she tilted her head and his memory of Maria triggered, his eyes shook while her image was replaced over and over with Amy's.

He flipped the tap, standing up and shaking his head in his cry, "MARRRRIIIAAA!" he then kicked the table away and grabbed Amy, jumping away as the table exploded near Sonic and the gang, who guarded and looked up to where Shadow had jumped to a nearby building and then continued on with trees.

"He really is using her!" Tails looked at the bomb, "He was going to explode us all to pieces!"

"Amy!" In worry, Sonic gritted his teeth and ran after her.

Shadow grew protective of Amy, only because his mind was associating her with Maria, having his PTSD kick in, Amy became Maria in his mind. He would shake his head and declare to Sonic, "I'll never let anyone take her away from me! Not again!"

"Again?" Amy was confused, but after a little chase, she figured out Shadow was having an episode, and helped comfort and calm him through it.

"T..Thank you… but why are you helping me?" He had snapped out of his mental breakdown, clutching his head.

"Hehe, cause you- for a moment anyway before being a bad guy again- totally helped me out with getting Sonic to notice me. But I would have done it regardless, shadow. You really should talk about this more… It may help with your emotions… talking about your feelings.." she put a hand delicately to his back, as he twitched under her kindness.

"Hmph!" he paused a moment, before swiping her hand away from him. "I don't need your sympathy." he spat out and took off before Sonic had a chance to catch him.

"Wait!"

"Sonic!" Amy stopped him and swung his arm she caught back to her.

"B-but he's getting away!"

"And?"

"H-he took you!"

"And?"

"And!? Well, and now you're here and not… in… his clutches… oh." Sonic calmed down, looking back and forth to where Shadow went and where she was now.

"What's the deal, Ames? You know he's a bad dude! What… are you … y-you into that sort of t-t-thing?" He folded his arms, getting nervous and looking away, shy again.

She giggling into her hand, making him upset cause he's heard that giggle too much already today.

She then put her face close up to his cheek, "I was just making you sure you realize how it feels to lose me." She teased and walked to the gang coming up behind them.

"Amy!" they shouted for joy, thinking Sonic had caught up first and saved her.

"I think I'm done with the dating scene for one day." she grinned, embracing them as they welcomed her back.

Sonic couldn't help it, he studied the ground before glaring to Shadow's direction, and then his eyes softened, and he rubbed the back of his head.

"I guess…" he muttered to himself, before losing the tension in his body and looking tenderly towards Amy, "I never knew how that would feel…" he admitted, but only to himself.

With a smile.

Shadow stopped a moment from walking, taking off the communicator that Eggman was shouting out from- wondering what had happened, and accusing Amy of having changed his heart on him.

Shadow looked over his shoulder, seeing Amy so happy with her friends.

He clutched his chest. "…Maria… Forgive me. I seem to still…"

He watched her closer…

"Have weakness…"

He honed in on Amy's cheery smile… reminding him so much of Maria's…

(Augh, I kinda want to make Shadow crush on her but that would mean certain doom for keeping this canon lol. -though I think it's possible for his character… *cough cough*-)